The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

You don't have to be an angel.All you need is someone who can always see your best angle.

I’m not brave

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.

Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.

I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

The real friend is another self.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.